has <hengist.p...@virgin.net> wrote: > Bill Janssen wrote: > > > I'm trying to write this scrap of Applescript in Python appscript: > > > > on run > > tell application "Microsoft PowerPoint" > > set this_item to path of active presentation > > end tell > > set unix_item to POSIX path of this_item > > display dialog of unix_item > > end run > > > > which yields "/tilde/janssen/Documents", an NFS-mounted location. > > Is that correct? Shouldn't the volume appear under /Volumes? Is the > volume identified by this path mounted at the time you run this code? > If not, try it and see what happens.
Yes, it's correct, and yes, the volume is mounted -- the code is running out of it, in fact. It's my home directory. The automounter mounts these NFS shares automatically under "/tilde" if they come from the "mount.byname" YP map. They don't show up under /Volumes at all. > Appscript uses CFURL functions to convert POSIX to HFS paths and vice- > versa. (I'd have thought AS would use the same functions, but maybe > not.) The relevant code is in the ae.c file for your reference. Yes, I found it. I've been playing around with that code using Carbon.File... I was kind of hoping that this would do it Carbon.File.FSMakeFSSpec(0, 0, "janssen:Documents").FSpMakeFSRef().as_pathname() but not so -- maybe that's the same bug that shows up in CFURLCreateWithFilesystemPath. I think what one has to do is to enumerate the volumes, identify the one labelled as "janssen", and then use that volume ID as the parent to Carbon.File.FSMakeFSSpec(volumeID, 0, "Documents").FSpMakeFSRef().as_pathname() (I think enumeration is necessary -- at least, I don't see any call that says, "give me the volumeID of the volume known as 'janssen'".) > If you > find a problem in the way that HFS<->POSIX paths are converted, I'd > suggest writing up a test case in C to confirm the same behaviour > there, then submit a bug report to Apple on it as its their APIs that > are responsible for it. Sure. But I'm guessing that they don't actually use CFURLCreateWithFilesystemPath... And until the bug is fixed, I'd like to find a workaround for appscript to use. Sure like to know how "POSIX path of" does it... Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
